Resurrection Empire-Chapter 923 - 354: Full-Scale Assault
After saying this, Ren Zhong temporarily turned off the microphone and turned to ask Chen Hanyu behind him, "Is the experimental communication base station ready for debugging?"
Chen Hanyu immediately used the bone conduction call function of the new wrist watch to contact Hua Yuelan in Starfire Town.
In Starfire Town, Hua Yuelan stood with her arms folded in a control room.
Her eyes were fixed on the wall in front of her.
On the wall was a large projection screen, displaying a three-dimensional map of Yangsheng City, Huaihai City, and two intermediary cities.
All the towns and counties on the map were marked.
Double line strips representing data flow connected all of Yangsheng's ten towns and all the towns and counties along the way. The data flow came to an abrupt stop at Chromium Carbon Town to the far east.
Each town and county represented a small or large node in the information network.
On average, five base stations were installed in each town.
A medium-sized base station was installed on the Town Government Tower. Small base stations were installed on buildings within the four city walls.
In the county, dozens of base stations of large, medium, and small levels were installed.
The processing center of all data was located underground in this base at Starfire Town, composed of hundreds of thousands of Crystal Chips and thousands of Crystal Cores.
This was the first step in the Revival Plan, aimed at verifying the feasibility of the system.
If it could be confirmed that it met the basic real-time communication needs and operated stably enough, then Deep Communication Group would continue to invest research power and more resources to continuously expand the network coverage, build more distributed computing hubs, further increase the signal transmission and reception power of the base stations, and achieve full synchronization with near-Earth orbit satellites.
At this moment, small arrows visualized were moving along the data flow stripes through the various nodes.
Hua Yuelan picked up the walkie-talkie in her hand and slowly said, "Attention all units, General Ren is about to give a speech, make sure the information flows smoothly. This is our first pressure test, and failure is not an option. All terminals report delay conditions."
About five seconds later, information was returned from staff at various base stations.
The average delay time was within 100 milliseconds, the maximum delay time was less than 200 milliseconds, and the information stability of all terminals met the standard.
Hua Yuelan immediately informed Chen Hanyu.
Chen Hanyu: "Director Hua said everything is ready."
Ren Zhong: "That's good."
He first coughed slightly, then looked down at the stage, feeling a mix of emotions.
In the past two days, he publicly spoke many things he had wanted to say but didn't dare, and did many things he had wanted to do but didn't dare, increasingly exposing his true self.
But it was not simply because he had become recklessly bold.
Each of his public speeches had its purpose. He was progressively trying to awaken more Driftlanders.
Now, he was about to step into a new phase.
He would deliver a sufficiently perfect summary speech of his actions.
He opened the microphone again and slowly began to speak.
"As a Source Star native, especially as a Driftlander of Source Star, we have been fighting since the day we can remember. Our opponents have been Ruined Beasts, other people, and our own hardships. Every day from the moment we open our eyes to when we fall asleep, we are fighting, never stopping, never catching a breath."
"But, does this fighting have meaning? What have we changed through fighting? What have we gained? Yes, some people with talent, or just good luck, have reached higher levels as Professionals, gained greater strength, better equipment, more wealth, more resources. Some have even surpassed the limits of being a Driftlander and, like me, become Citizens."
"But have we gained a sense of security? I ask all Fifth Level, Fourth Level, or Third Level Professionals to ask yourselves, have you ever had a day where you completely stop worrying if you'll wake up the next morning when you close your eyes at night? Totally not worry that you might suddenly die an untimely death?"
"Has the future in your eyes become certain because of your strength?"
"It hasn't, including for me. Now that I am a Seventh Level Citizen, possessing vast wealth and great power, I still don't know if one day a super-order Ruined Beast might suddenly emerge, or if I might offend some important person, or if an Eighth or a Ninth Level Professional might suddenly want my life. If I die, all that I have built so far will become nothing. If this is the case for me, what about you?"
"The ultimate goal of fighting is to gain a sense of security, but now we don't have it. In the past, we were nothing more than numb and passive participants in battle, living day by day, unable to guarantee survival from morning to night. We have never truly been masters of our own lives. Our hopes have always been pinned on luck."
